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Gentrification gets a street-level look in New York band Karikatura’s new video for the funky, brass-laced song “Eyes Wide,” premiering today on Speakeasy.

The clip follows a woman in a bright track suit as she heads out to run errands, but she soon notices as she dances her way down the sidewalk that something about her neighborhood is different. Cue the people in suits, brushing brusquely past with eyes fixed on their phones, followed by a pack of fixed-gear cyclist. Then our protagonist spots a new high-rise residential building and, soon enough, hipsters. The horror.

Karikatura describes its sound as an “organic synthesis of all the music heard blasting out of car windows and shops onto the streets of” New York. Singer Ryan Acquoatta tells Speakeasy that he wrote the Latin-flavored song in part to examine his own role in the gentrification.

Two weeks ago, actress and singer Patti LuPone grabbed a cell phone out of the hand of an audience member who was texting during a performance of her current play, "Shows for Days." The bold move led to an outpouring of support from fans fed up with glowing screens. Ms. LuPone gives us her five rules of theater etiquette.